BBC Gardeners' World

Over the fence

Ellen Miles is founder of social enterprise Dream Green and author of Get Guerrilla Gardening

neighbourhoods; as many as one in five* Brits live in nature-deprived areas. Yet councils often protest that creating and maintaining public greenery is prohibitively costly and time-consuming. Resident-led greening in otherwise lifeless corners of public spaces, also known as guerrilla gardening, is a no-brainer – providing local people with a meaningful nature connection, while easing the

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